Success Can’t Give You Happiness, Only GROWTH Can!

The momentum is on.  We are very close to Born to Win 14.  It is great to look back the journey that how Born to Win has empowered thousands of participants and supported them to elevate to the next level in life. 

Venue: MRC Center, Santhom, Chennai
Dates: 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th July 2008.

Hundreds of people who are coming in are going to take away greatest time proven secrets of life. Let us welcome Born to Win 14.  If you are not yet part of this greatest experience, I welcome you to the show.  If you are already a Born to Win graduate, do come back for coaching!

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It was a totally a new and awesome experience. We just finished the Dubai camp (last week Abu Dhabi Camp was completed) which is one of the biggest children camps ever done. It was full of energy, fun, excitement and many super special emotions. As I always say the success of the Children camp is always dedicated to the great efforts of the coaching team. The entire coaching team (both the ACoaches and the Coaches) needs a big ’salute!’ You people were awesome and you are the people who made it happen.

The team of Assistant Coaches Apoorva, Adil, Swathi, Shruthi, Natasha, Kiran Madhu, Pranav, Gauthami, Sukjit, Abraham, Sagar Suri, Richard - You people were so inspiring and really made a tremendous difference in the amount of energy we experiened inside the hall! I love you all deep from my heart. I am going to miss you people till the time we meet next.

The Coaches from India Bhaskaran (Program Director), Manohar, Uma, Sudharshan; Coaches from Dubai/Sharjah Mathew, Hasan, Richard, Abdul Ghani, Beena, George. Each and every one of you made a huge difference in the life of those wonderful children. You all were totally guided and so certain on what you were doing. I wish this camp gives you all a new learning, and all the support required to move to the next level in your life.

As usual: Nirmala - your training and coaching made tremendous difference. Like how Richard Coach said, let the Force of Guidance be your voice!
Abhayan - You are like the basement of the huge building. Your efforts were the foundation for this greatest experience what we all had together.
Sendhil’s presence gave every bit of moral support required.

It is not only these set of people but each and every one who is part of OnlySuccess and every one who has coached in the past - your thoughts were always with us.

These days were not only the greatest days for the children but also for me. I am wondering how come in this camp there were so many varieties of people. The truth is no two children are similar. Interestingly in this camp every child was so different and that was the reason for such a great experience. I thank the super power nature for giving this greatest privilege to touch the lives of so many children and their parents. Let the children remain the way they walked out of the camp for ever in their life!

I am sure you know right now camps are going on back to back for children.  In addition to what ever camps that got over in India there are four more camps coming up in UAE - Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi.  Obviously I love this period a lot. 

Lots of training, lots of coaching, and lots of fun.  More than all it is a great feeling of supporting the children to change their lives for ever.  Once common question I always hear from coaches is ‘Why Coaching is Addictive?’ 

Addictive means anything which you cannot stop easily.  Anything that you gives you a great feeling when you do, when you get indulged. Anything that you want to do it again and again, where heart takes over the mind.

I have always found two kinds of addictions:
1. Negative addictions - They are the ones that destroys us internally and physically in the long run.   Smoking, drinking, uncontrollable time spent on TV / internet, excessive sleeping etc

2. ???????? ????? ????????Positive addictions - They allow us to grow stronger emotionally and show our inner strengths.  Coaching is one among those positive addictions.

What creates the addictions in the coaching:  Anything that gives you an emotional ‘high’ always turns out to be an addictive behaviour.  When you are a coach to somebody you become a roll model for others.  People look up to you as a person whom they can trust, whom they can model and whom they can admire.  These factors push you to see yourself differently.  It helps you to easily come out of some of your lousy patters which you wanted to step out for years together. 

Like any new behaviour to set in for the first time always there is a resistance.  That is the reason I even see people come back to coach after one or even 2 years from the time they finish the Born to Win program.  But the interesting part is once they come in they realise that it is addictive.  They keep coming back for coaching.  It give an emotional ‘high’.  It makes you more disciplined.  It shows a new you.  It pushes your identity to the next better level.  It makes you grow internally. It creates the opportunity to make a difference in others life which for many of the coaches what I have seen is a first time experience.

I love positive addictions.  In fact that makes you grow faster.  Keep increasing your list of positive addictions and grow stronger internally.  Keep coaching….Say I love Coaching.

I am greatful to the Super Power Nature for giving the resources to OnlySuccess Foundation for funding the education of good number of underprevilaged children.  These set of children who will be funded for thier upcoming year education are the ones who struggle to meet their requirement to pay their fees in their schools/colleges.  Some of them have only one parent and some of them without this support may withdraw the schooling though the parents really want them to continue. 

 There are several of you who have contributed to the OnlySuccess Foundation Fund which goes for this cause - PROVIDING EDUCATION TO THE NEEDY.  At this moment I request everyone who read this post to participate in the event and extend your greatest support for the event.  As you know your feelings go a long way.  Let us give our love and support to those wonderful set of children who will be benefited from this event.  Let us make the world a better place to live!

Date: 3rd May, Saturday, 6 pm
Venue:  OnlySuccess Learning Technologies, Sathya Plaza, 7, Dr.Thirumoorthy Nagar Main Road, Nungambakkam, Chennai-34, India.

All donations to OnlySuccess Foundation is tax excempted under Sec 80G of the Income Tax Act for the Indian Donor. 

Last Sunday, it was an amazing Whoosh Event by Dr.M.A.Raja, Oncologist from Apollo.  What touched me instantly when I met Dr.M.A.Raja was his huge respect for human emotions.  I saw him more as a human than only as a Doctor.  He mentioned why he chose to be a Doctor when he was just 7!.  It was a well defined goal for him and he made that happen in his life.   His grandfather was a Doctor and he saw people walking into his room crying but when they were coming out they were happy. He saw his grandfather as a magician, a person who wanted to wipe off the tears of others.  He also wanted to be a magician in others life, a person who can wipe of others tears.

That gave him intense passion to be a Doctor.  It was a great story.  Obviously that is what made him a great Doctor - The passion to wipe off others tears.  It was inspiring!

If you have misses some of his great wisdoms here in I am going to list down for you.  Dr.M.A.Raja being a senior Oncologist we definitely had some amazing learnings from him.   The crux what really he drove in our minds are here:

A. He brought in the great example of Lance Amstrong, the guy who won cancer.  His story was inspiringn and definitely I will share more about him in my postings.

B. Some of the major risk factors that causes cancer: 
1. Genes:  Though it is one of the major factor there are research studies going on to even rework the genes.  I was wondering one day you can walk into a clinic and change your gene and come back.  How the life will change and what the way world will look like?  Great to think about.

2.  Pollution: Be aware of this and follow some basic rules to keep yourself away from pollution.

3. Evolution of Humans:  Today because of technology advancements we do little activities with our body and more and more activitiy using brain.  Once out of office the brain still have to work on lot of stuff, as you watch TV, as you engage in looking for information online etc.  Bring in lot of motion to your body.

4. Food:  His classification was simple; a) Cancer causing food b) Clogging food c) Foods boycotted for political or environmental reaons.  He told a strong No to Red meat.  If you are the one who takes lot of red meat either stop it or reduce it to one third today!  If are thinking how, use the techniques of NLP to break your craving for food that you must not take.

5. Mental Status:  If your are part of BORN to WIN I dont have to tell you the impact of the mind on the body.  Cancer hates people with download new ringtones free cricket ringtones ringtones software ringtones free nokia ringtones free blackberry ringtones polyphonic ringtones free yahoo ringtones totally free ringtones cricket download free ringtones cingular ringtones nextel ringtones software make ringtones boost free mobile ringtones download free nokia ringtones cricket free ringtones hotlink caller ringtones caller ringtones free samsung ringtones download free ringtones cell phone highly positive attitude.  Let cancer hate you.  Be there on first sunday of every month for ‘Attract the Outcome You Deserve’ event by 7 am.

6. Smoking:  You know the fact?  30% of cancer across the world is becuase of smoking.  Simple:  Stop it!

7. Life Style:  Look at your lifestyle.   It has to be energizing.  Every day routine of yours must be healthy and energetic. 

8. Infections:  Remember you have total control on what infections can affect and what cannot.  It is about how you eat and what you eat. 

It was great to have him here.  Definitely it added lots of insight into some of our prespectives of life.  I stepped on to the stage and asked him “Will a mind training like Born to Win will have any positive impact on a cancer patient?  If you feel yes OnlySuccess would like to offer seats for some of your cancer patients in the upcoming July 08 Born to Win.”  Dr. M.A.Raja also felt a strong yes and he decided to send some of them to the upcoming Born to Win.  By the law of Super Power Nature we expect medical miracles to happen!  I am sure you are with me on this. 

Defintiely the Whoosh committee has made a commendable job to organize such a nice event. Hats off Whoosh!

It was a mind blowing experience!  Today morning I am sure you all are aware about the Awareness Walk from OnlySuccess Foundation at the Marina Beach - “Connecting with the Children of God”.  It is for a great cause.  The walk was to bring in the awareness to more and more people that they can play a meaningful role in providing the education for the under privileged children.

Right from yesterday night there were calls coming in at OnlySuccess, primarily Parents of Superbkids/Superbteens Graduates checking if the even is going to happen as there were predictions for rain and it was also raining.  BORN to WIN graduates know Rain Cant Stop this great walk!

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I am back!!  It was an awesome show whoosh has organized to bring in Suhas Gopinath.  Suhas Gopinath is running a multinational organization with over 500 employees world wide operating in 11 countries.   How you expect him to look like?  See his picture below! 

Don’t think this picture was taken years back when he was young.  They were just taken day before when he was in OnlySuccess!  Suhas, is the youngest CEO of the world when he was 16.  Right now he is the final year Engineering student with MS Ramaiah Engineering College.  He started of his company  when he was just 14 and today Suhas is 21 and the CEO of Globals Inc.  and rocking the whole world.   He is the visiting faculty with Indian Institute of Management (IIM) - I know you will read this again- There are no typeo error, it is correct!

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I am writing to you all after a while. Sure, I was blown away again by Tony - The Man.  It was amazing to spend time with Tony at Sydney. 

One of the most powerful states what I have discovered now and it makes a huge difference for me is the State of CERTAINTY! It is amazing to be in that state and it helps you to make powerful decisions.  It give you huge momentum to do the things which are difficult to do.

What CERTAINTY state means? 
It is a state when you are sure of what you are doing.

*When you are sure of the outcome -( i.e. you have visualize the outcome before it happens)
*When you are 100% confident of the direction in which you are moving
*A state where you can guide people in the right direction.  The time when people look up to you as a leader.

Several times it is true for you and me that a question pops up asking am I doing the right thing?  That question slows down the speed of your thoughts and actions.   What you need is a state of CERTAINTY to move forward. 

How to go into the state of certainty? 
Once you are sure of the outcome you shift yourself to the certainity state.  Vizualize the outcome, be sure of the direction where you are heading to.  In the upcoming BORN to WIN definitely I am going to do a session on creating the Certainty State - Be there to experiece the session.  Make even more confident decisions.

It is great to keep writing to you with new things. My newest website www.iamborntowin.com is just up and running.  The content is up and the payment option will be up by next week.  I will definitely keep you informed once it is ready.

You know what is going to do? It is going to take my yet to be released Audio Lessons, to various parts of the world. As you know one of my biggest purposes in life is to touch as many life as possible within my life time.
I saw this as an amazing tool to achieve this objective. This website will give you the entire lessons on line. You can go there, download all the lessons and listen to them. It will also provide the BONUS CD – Vidya’s Life Learning and the WorkBook totally free. Ensure you let you friends know are in various parts of the world. I am sure showing them this site will be one of the biggest gift you have ever given to you most loved one. Make the choice be there, ensure you tell all your friends, which ever part of the world they are in – they can take up the front row in listening to BORN to WIN audio lessons.
It is not just this! As you visit this site and register yourself now, you can download the FREE eBook of mine “Vidya’s Thoughts”. It is the collection of some of the highly rated writing of this blog. It is not only you, your friends can also download it free!

I was invited to Church Park for addressing the students and teachers on the 60th Independence Day Celebrations. Every time when the flag is hoisted and we salute in front of it, wow it is an AMAZING feeling! Here is my actual speech. You will find the definition of Patriotism. If you want to hear what I spoke do click the link below the script and download the audio:

“Very good morning to all. It is a great previlege to me here in front of you all today – On the 60th year celebration of the Indian Independence. As I am standing in front of you all, what runs in mind is the same set of days when I was in my school, when I was like you all I was in front of this flag, feeling great about being an Indian. Definitely I was very happy on those day. There were actually two reasons - one it is the independence day of ours and other because it is a HOLIDAY!!

What this day is all about? If you have define this day with one single word – What it is? It is PATRIOTISM. What is Patriotism? It is love for the country. You all love our country? (Children: Yes!).

The definition of this word Patriotism is different today compared to what it was 60 years back. 60 years back what Patriotism means? If somebody says I am patriotic, what they must do. You have to step out of the house and really fight for the country But today what is the definition? Today it means ‘You have to do what you are suppose to do, with lot of love, commitment, and passion. What do I mean by passion? Love toward what you do. If you are teacher you must have to be totally committed. If you are a student, and if you want to do something for our country, participate 100% in what you do. Be totally committed in what you do.

If you check any country who are progressing much faster than what we are today, because in India as you were depicting in your songs and dance, one side we see great developments, other side people are struggling with poverty and children don’t have a school to go after 60 years of independence.

How it is possible for certain other countries to grow rapidly. It is possible because people are totally committed. Only one message I have for you today is If you want to do something for the country be totally committed in what you do - you coming to the school, you doing your assignment, homework understand the fact that you are not doing it for the sake of your teachers, your parents, you are doing it for yourself!

Why I say this? I train over 6000-7000 children from over 40 different Nationalities in a year through OnlySuccess Superbkids/Superbteens training. You know one of the common question I ask most of the students? Why you do all these work, all related to school? You know the most popular answer from most of them?

Otherwise my mom will scold me, my dad will scold me, my teacher will punish me! But what I want you to under stand is you are not doing your assignments and homework for the sake of parents or teachers. You have to do it If you have to be successful , you have to participate 100% in what you do. It is not just one day we celebrate our Independence day and get back to work.

If you want do really do something for the country do this:

You must have to start loving your school,
You must have to start loving your teachers,
You must have to start loving your subjects,
You must have to start loving your exams.

Really, if you have to do well your exams you must really love it.

Happy independence. Once again thanks a lot and it a great privilege to be here with you all today.”

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